Encountering Counterintuitive Ideas: Constructing a Developmental Learning Progression for Evolution Understanding

Evolution Challenges: Integrating Research and Practice in Teaching and Learning about Evolution

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Evans, E Margaret ^a   Rosengren, Karl S ^b   Lane, Jonathan D ^a   Price, Kristen L S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

Author keywords

Child development; Constraints; Evolution; Informal science education; Intuitive theories; Learning progression

Indexed keywords

EID: 84922761303     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199730421.003.0008     Document Type: Chapter

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